The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication evolved from the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication and succeeds what was formerly known as the Center for Global Communication Studies.

What are we learning about how new technologies are actually being used in education in so-called ‘developing countries’ that is not often reported on in the international media? Join Mike Trucano, the World Bank’s Senior ICT & Education Specialist, for an idiosyncratic tour around the world looking at emerging sets of experiences that are a bit ‘under the radar’ but which may shed light on what is working (and what isn’t) and what this may suggest about possibilities and opportunities in the future.

There is a new Cold War starting. It does not involve opposing military forces, but it does involve competing ideas about how political life should be organized. The battles are between broadcast media outlets and social media upstarts, organizations that have very different approaches to news production, ownership, and censorship. In several countries, this war pits the ruling elites who dominate broadcast media against the civil society groups who flourish through social media.